10 A PROPOSITION to
amend sections 3 and 7 of article 6 of the consti-
11 tution of the state of
Kansas.
12
13
14 Be it resolved by
the Legislature of the State of Kansas, two-thirds of the
15 members elected (or
appointed) and qualified to the Senate and two-
16 thirds of the
members elected (or appointed) and qualified to the House
17 of Representatives
concurring therein:
18
Section 1. The following proposition to amend the
constitution of the
19 state of Kansas shall be submitted to the
qualified electors of the state
20 for their approval or rejection: Sections 3
and 7 of article 6 of the con-
21 stitution of the state of Kansas are hereby
amended to read as follows:
22 "§
3. Members of state board of education and state
board
23 of regents. (a)
From and after January 10, 2001, there shall be
ten
24 eleven members
of the state board of education with. Ten
members
25 shall be elected
to overlapping terms as the legislature may pre-
26 scribe. One member,
who shall be a qualified elector of this state,
27 shall be appointed
by and serve at the pleasure of the governor.
28 Such member shall
be eligible to be elected chairperson of the board.
29 The legislature shall
make provision for ten member districts, each
30 comprised of four
contiguous senatorial districts. The electors of
31 each member district
shall elect one person residing in the district
32 as a member of the
board. The legislature shall prescribe the man-
33 ner in which vacancies
occurring on the board shall be filled.
34 (b) The
state board of regents shall have nine members with
35 overlapping terms as
the legislature may prescribe. Members shall
36 be appointed by the
governor, subject to confirmation by the senate.
37 One member shall be
appointed from each congressional district
38 with the remaining
members appointed at large, however, no two
39 members shall reside
in the same county at the time of their ap-
40 pointment. Vacancies
occurring on the board shall be filled by ap-
41 pointment by the
governor as provided by law.
42
(c) Subsequent redistricting shall not disqualify any
member of
43 either board from
service for the remainder of hissuch
member's

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1 term. Any member
of either board may be removed from office for
2 cause as may be
provided by law.
3 "§
7. Savings clause.(a) All laws in
force at the time of the
4 adoption of this
amendment and consistent therewith shall remain
5 in full force
and effect until amended or repealed by the legislature.
6 All laws
inconsistent with this amendment, unless sooner repealed
7 or amended to
conform with this amendment, shall remain in full
8 force and effect
until July 1, 19692001.
9
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of the
constitution to
10 the contrary,
no state superintendent of public instruction or
county
11 superintendent
of public instruction shall be elected after January
12 1,
1967.
13
(c) The state perpetual school
fund or any part thereof may be
14 managed and
invested as provided by law or all or any part thereof
15 may be
appropriated, both as to principal and income, to the
sup-
16 port of the
public schools supervised by the state board of
17
education."
18 Sec. 2. The
following statement shall be printed on the ballot with
19 the amendment as a whole:
20 "Explanatory statement. The
constitution of this state provides that a ten-
21 member state board of
education be elected from member districts
22 which are each
composed of four state senatorial districts.
23 "A vote for this
proposition would increase the number of members on
24 the board from 10 to
11 with the provision that one member be ap-
25 pointed by and serve
at the pleasure of the governor. The other 10
26 members would continue
to be elected from 10 member districts.
27 "A vote against this
proposition would retain the composition of the board
28 with 10 members."
29
Sec. 3. This resolution, if approved by two-thirds of
the members
30 elected (or appointed) and qualified to the
Senate, and two-thirds of the
31 members elected (or appointed) and
qualified to the House of Repre-
32 sentatives shall be entered on the
journals, together with the yeas and
33 nays. The secretary of state shall cause
this resolution to be published as
34 provided by law and shall cause the
proposed amendment to be submitted
35 to the electors of the state at the general
election in the year 2000 unless
36 a special election is called at a sooner
date by concurrent resolution of
37 the legislature, in which case it shall be
submitted to the electors of the
38 state at the special election.
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